Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair FRSEwas a Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth7 April 1718
fitness health exercise
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
heart flow manners
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
world violent vicissitudes
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
unhappy misery cruelty
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
reflection men views
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
heart
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
motivation eye action
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.